The Sun. — London, England, 1809-01-17 00:00:00

tll ttORICAL LECIII.4I. OF 1111. CAMPAIGN ' OF BUONAPARTI: IN I I'ALY, .‘ 1N TI.IIEYLU s 1766 - AND .1797. A NEW AU St% 'HAN ARMY nnwit:s IN THE . 711t01.. The.il4ol!:tht events whk.h are morneqtarily taking place , have noty for some days, allowed room for the con ti :uuation of the History of BUeNnPARTIt'S Lillian Can faaign. Our Readers may be assured that we have not abandoned the design of laying it before them. We consider it as one Of the.ninst mterest 41)00'u:talents that was ever given to the Public, and we are persuaded that its appearance was nlever 'mere neCessarv, nor promised greater advantages than at present.-. It is now, more than ever, im portant to spew that BUONAPARTE was a Lai, a thief, and a murderer from the beginning. That his dbjeEt ' was universal tyranny, and his means perfidy, seduc lion, and a most mutton and horrible waste of hu luau blood. That his victories (6 despite of his flat-; . aerers, the. Opposition Writers), are less due to his own talents as a soldier, 'than Mille itubectlfity and 'treachery of those who oppose him, and that when ..he has been met by spirit and integrity, he has ' • either been' repulsed, or, if successful, gained his end by:sacrifices infinitely outvaluing the object, and which none bat a monster of inhumanity would have wade. Besides this, it is of the most serious conic . quence that the sources of history should be clear. pains are taken by the Jacobins of this Country, in Reviews, Registers, &c, to suppress the enormities of BUONArnIcTE, and keep his disgraces out of sight we are therefore aiding the cause of truth, and promoting' the present and future in= Wrests of mankind, by furnishing the bluest his torian with authentic, documents for estimating the charaCter and talents of a brutal tyrant, who, with out one virtue, Witheitti one aniiabla or engaging quality,end without one passion but like the raging of the tiger, drives him eternally from • victim to viCtitn, to satiate his thirst of [lnman Las been stupidly elevated into a' great man, and, with unparallelled adulation, placed above Caligula and Nero. It has been asked by the Conduaors of a truly respectable and rational Work, why we do not give the name of the author ? The question is not put witlythe' usual judgment of those Gentlemen.— RoW can we give it with safety,?, We have already declared that he is a person of rank and. honour, and 4 General Officer in the service of a German Plume; personally obnoxious to EtiONAPAUTS for his loyalty, and who, having escaped from slut great prison house,, the Continent, to this happy Country, the only spot in Europe where truth can be spoken or written, has seized the opportunity to give an au :, theistic narrative of facts which). passed under his owu eye, and which have been perverted by a horde of • scribblers, for the detestable purpose of raising trophies to the Corsican, on the ruins of all that is dear to mankind. But this excellent person does not mead to reside . among us forester ; his dearest wish is to revisit the land of his fathers, and to lay his bones with theirs. 'Could he do this, if his name were made public ? Is there a Prince on the Continent that can proted any of his subjeCts, or that *would dale to refuse the head of his most faithful adherent to the meanest satellite of BUoNAPnItTIi ? laid.not the Emperor of Austria give up the' anchor Of '‘_‘. The Romans in 'Greece)" Have the free Cities of Germany already fogotten the unfortuaite PALM ? Could the King of Prtrsaia prevent the murder of his own Officers, for not celebrating the birth-day of 'a fiend in human shape ?' • 411c1,cati. the miserable ALextiwzga, who is barely suffered to walk about, like MosTrausaA, in golden chains, free 'himself from the hateful • sight oft he erittinig. murderer, CAULINCOUItT,WIIO is destined one day to execkitioner ?. IS any thing better known than that tiogN A ‘ kinta; 'has a professed poisontr in leis pay at every Court on the Continent, to take off those whom it may net suit bis purpose to assassinate in public ?—.And yet we are thoughtleisly called Upon to supply his diabolical rancour with 414,1110 R. RS of sacrificing another victim Ty have said this, is sinticient We return to the contipuatiou ortis history. . • A ),TRNI, AUSTRZAt/ ARR/VHS IN Tug TYROL, The Cabioet of Vienna determined at length to send reinforcements to UEAVLEAL/ 1 8 army, or rather to send a new army, commanded by Marshal Wultarsaa. This army nobly 'signalized its en trance into •aainn, and in a way whitgi cost the 'rent h very, dear. BouturAwra himself ad mits W have sustained, a reverse, • Ci tizen Direetors:" ...This is all he says; btit this, in the inntith of IuowAPARTE: signiaes eery thing. " We have sustained a rePerSc." It is clear that he pronounced this word with great re-. luEtancc ; - and h‘, therefore, 11:itetis to indemnify : himself by adding, " Sot. already viaory begins tm 'cunt) to our stand;ud,'-' and -he dwells at great l utigth un. the 't , i4haries winch he boasts to hays gainel: three page's iiethuely , suffice to cutitail'i In proportion as he is laconic on his reverse; he is diffuse and' exaggerati've 'on his success. It is ow.. duty r i cr supply the deftc.;. of his !actinism, and to er'tplattr, the nature of this ' 7' n 1 ; MC which was a de feat d'fra to complete rout ! • , L • , The aripyOf WonmsEtt amounted to nearly forty thousand men, including the ciAlt:y, which were of no service to him in the difficult country where he meditated his first attack. BUONAI'AItTCB forces were very much more Mitnerous; for, eKpating the' • arrival of the evemieS array; li t e had strengthened himself with 'a moiety of the troops chartered in the neighbourhood of,_Maiitea; as well as tith all those camps, which, eneamped in different were not . absolutely necessary for their proteEtion. On the 29th of July; Wonrasia presented him self unexpeetelly, at . break of day, before. the French line, and attacked it on all points. This line vitas piotetled• by very numerous batteries, which rendeVed it truly formidable. If. the ;attack' was brisk, the defence was Vigorous for seVetal hours; during which the cannonade ts as kept up ire both sides. At length the Austrian General forced the entrenchinents : the contest was then earriedsvo with the bayonet, and' the carnage was teirilile, Thedisorder, confusion, and terror was• So great tit the French army, that it was no longer possible to recognize " the terrible column of the bridge of Lodi," or the " intrepid grenadiers of the passage of the •Mincio." All these heroes gave way, and fled with the utmost precipitation: the Austrians pur sued there furiously, killed au amaZing nuinber, and did But ; give over till the night absolutely constrained , the:M; WurtMsart took almost the v hole of their Art it lery, and made eight b i lious:lnd prisoners. The number of anti "wounded far exceeded this, insomuch that the inhabitants of the country were employed two whole -days and nights in homing the bodies. We did not lose quite three thousand men in killed, wowid,ql, and' prisoners. This is the atttun which BUoNAPAaTH modestly calls. a rev4r.te, and which Weamsca had a right to win a .it;. great and glorious victory. But this was not all. During the attack on the French line, the post of Salo was also attacked by an Austrian flotilla; dispatched froin the banks of the Trent by, the Like of Garda ; while another small detachment of ilnee thousand,roeu fell upon Brescia; both these places surrendered, and the two garrisons were made prisoners of War. There was yet more and what must. have af forded still greater pleasure to Wuumstia : namely, that on the following day he saw the eneniy pelted to abandon 'the siege of Mantua, and leave behind them the grand park of artillery, and im mense magazines of every kind. whol,;01 this he ordered to be conveyed into the city without de -lay, and he levelled and blew up all the batteries which had been raised by the French. for its annoy ance-and destration. ,Isere then is the just explication of the word noose, wtaicli BuoNA . PARTE - employed it) his offic►a report to 'the Directory ! It ineant, that he had beenltnnvletely beaten; but, on the other hand, when he boasts that he has ohtained'a vidory, it is far from following that the word is always to be taken in its ordinary acceptation. In the Reports of •Buot.:ApArtra, it freqtni.ntly signifies nothing more than a slight advantoge which his vanity loves to ag&rt,dize; and more frequently still, an ad vomge equivalent to a"defeat by the immense sicri., ft.' tof lives 'which it has cost him. Ofieral relleetion is applicable to all the &ll letinsilooNspnaTa has published froM the moment he entered Italy, to the last Which he composed on the frontiers of 'Russia. , • ;Lie) seevninwed.l The l rtincess of DAsKew, who w.is so great a favourite with the Empress CATuAitiNE, of 'Russia, and who visited England and Ireland some years since, by the Empress's desire,' now resides in Mos cow, where she lives to the inost'splendid style, sur rounded by ail her relations. This Lady, when in üblin, war. habited in the Russian costume, and al ways wore a belt, with a dagger. The only heart of her dress that Was lumininu, was that of her head, on which stie wore a tnund calf, with :t quilled lace border, and a great nu unity of diamonds. She was also decorated with the the insignia Of sevvral OtdOES, COOICIFeiI MI her hy her Royal Mistress, Whose picture, set in diamonds, was placed at her. breast. A yoUng Irish Lady, Who had -resided five years with the Princess in Russia, and who was re iturning to her native country loathed With l ooney and presents, was lately shipwreeked in the Golf of Finland., and lived for thirty days muter the hospit able roof of a Finland fisherman, where she .was treated with the greatest kindness ; from Whence she went to Sweden, acid there took her passage to_ Scotland, on her way tri her ita ,ye land, Wlwre she has probably arrived by this time. A rencontre of a curious nature is about to take' place between Richman, the Riack, and a Mi ll ' ; the fernier is' to be .armed with a quarter-61A, :toil the haS been for some time io training, to ) ,moke coin as savage as possible, h to Meet thi 011- tagonist unmuzzled, and quite ad ritree. , 'keepers are 'to be at hood in ease Bruin slumildbug • lyb a2loselY. 4. he man.h is. for tine hundred guineas ; 'atid comiderahle. bets are already laid. 'Die trains briile is the favourite of the two ! • JOS i:;lin 1:3110 N.-1 Pil RrE :.:;-:' G c { ! , :LE :'( it - Y111; : In litying„Abe Olowing co:nntunication hefwe nur Headers, we ,i,,trt it neeessitty to 05,t,:r,e, t:; it w;.: Owe very Intte ty_itaiti.e upon the :it:COra:j Oil,OlC 1431eilit'llt. Itis by ;to tne.titi tikciy.tbat loseith tvoti ti risk ho suovef tterson sr, tar as to .o.:Lonip.itty 11 Lb; ati V. 40 of tie i rcuctr Army . EXTRACT oy A LiaTtit raom ix.Antz.To, iAN. 15. " lteing iteoaMted. with Getreitil LtIrEVR.E in -Paris, I waited on hint this venifig, and alter re., mailing with him about ten inini;llefi, a person dreht as a servant entered the room ; upon i seying woritnger, he appeared Cottlpsed, and turned W 4.!;.1Vd the roam. A 'thought htruch .•me, that he Jeheibled josratit IiUONAPARTE, .%110111 1 had seen .whsle in Paris. therefore resolved to follow him ; and wishing the General good tuornMg, I followed him down stairs, and accosting him hi French, he turned round, and thereby gave me a hill view of his countenance; whioh I itninc,liately recognised to be the ci-dwant king'of Spain. I conitl hardly - restrain my joy, but prudence prevailed, and . lea% ing the bowie kt t !IGLU any suspicion, 1 hastened to inform you of it. " l ' our's, sincerely, '' J . C.,, YithISSARIES. F};- We alluded yesterday to the firsi attempt which was made by the Porte to introduce the European system el discipline. It was tried in the year 1623 by Osman, who, in cthiceenence ef a signal defeat which tlit Turkish arms:sustained iii Poland,, began to think - serlousli. -of-ernhodyieg a regular miiit.rty force, oil the clue selythission -of .which the Govern ment might' alwaji texly.. lie perceiired that the Janissaries, t ontrary to their original institution, had been permitted to trade, and acquired varionsother ivileges, which t endered them %env indifferent sol diers. In concert with his Grand Vizier, the Sultan proceeded to 'rauke troops in A‘ia. A:con•iderable !lumber of Coords, a warlike tribe, near Datnascus, wort enlisted. Oenan emended to embody 4t0,000 of these men, as a Lite Guard. In bider to carry his scheme into exebotion, be pretended to prepare tur piigrimsge to .Mecca ; but the Janissaiils di:co vered the plot bafere it-was ripe, °seem was hurled, from his throne, and his Vizier and principel Officers massacLed before his e) es. . His uncle, Mustapha, ‘vho was insane, but who had, formerly been Sultan, was restored, , Oman was. sent to a dungeon, and Ordered to be s f rangled. 1 - 10 resisted the mutes who ploy weril'enied . lo put hint to:death ; but a J.llliSiary having knocked him dowe .with a bittle•exe, the fatal purpose was•effeeled. The high -sounding ti tles of the Ottoman Sok ereigns, form a singular wet. tr3it'.with the 11141111 QT which many of them 'ter minate their ctueer. .The Grand .Seignior is thus styled by his subjects " Most Puissant and Highest. Monarch of the 'Turks, King above all Kings, a King that dwelled) Upon the earthly Paradise, Sue of Mahomet,' Keeper of the Grave of the L'oristlon God, Lord of the Tree of Life", end of River Fliski, Prior of the Earthly paradise, Ccliapieror of the 1144cedoniatn, the Seed of the , Great Alexander„Pripceof the: King doms of Tartery, 'Mesepotamia, Medea, and of the Martial Mainclukes, Anatolia, Bithynia, Asia, At• SCn ia,Tracia, Morea, Wallachia, Mulda%ia, and of ntl Warlike Hungary ; Sovereign Lord .and Commander of all Greece, Persia, both the Arabias, • the Most-Noble Kiogdoin of, Egypt, Tremiieu at-id African Empire of Trabiesund, and the Must rious City of Constantinople; Lord of all'th.,4White ,and Bl tck Seas, of the Holy Cities of Mecca and „with Di% Me Glory; cominatider .of all things that are to be commauded, and the 'strongest and :Mightiest Champion of the Wide World ; a Warrior appointed by Heaven in the Edge of the Sword ; a Persecutor of his Enemies, a inust perfect Jewel of the Blessed Trce ; the Principal Keeper of the Crucified God, &c. &c. 14" We have been favoured with the following Ex trati of a Letter OPOitTO, Disc. 15.—Sir ROBERT. WILSON,' With the Legion'he has formed; and completely dies - ciplined in three Months, marched from Oporto yes terday, 101 l of confidence and ::;dour, with the linen , tintt'of prirceeding to onr frOntier, for 'the purpose of ineNpying a'point in' the intermediate country be twern Sir DA'iD BAWD'S and Sir JOHN YrODitie . s army, therdii I.tcilttattog the communication and future moy,.‘ments of the respective armies, and at . the same time covering and defending, as far 44 his .torce,t.vtiuld admit, the approach to the Northern provinces. The' cons - of 300'1 Volunteers, and we are most happy in being able to bear les:i llicitly to the, uncommon zeal and alacrity they have .displayed comin lomat d at. this time, the Stell4li .ness they have rnailireited or two occasions, and the troiol', ties; with which they have adipted onr e‘ , lllllolls. it milt" also be allo:ved, that few men of ;my is:tion would have so'readdy no:tutu - M:11M t:temselVe.s to the stria trim of dis. of khe itish service but the adv3atages they 'ti A erh 7 64 . 10111 ,so doins are evident in their per sonal cianfort and steatity; as well as th tharacier they have Brokh nerals have borne 1,0 . 1)14, tesitnony to the tifll iirisisi cippearAtlCT tlf 11,. c:ctt; ►s tor the short space oh Sinw it juis been eninnett. Tile I Alcinn !Live been ex tended to 10,010 or Snore, had the PortugueSe finances at that pcitnitted tnvh au inetease„ Its ll'UllberS were every shy iejetted, front : u s idea that tha ythaltirces to not sotticiently sverne toy the Conon natant to rely so certain is it, that te gul.nity and security in all transarlions with the soldier are the great *holds of emery good military system.. At prrsent the Legion i 4 viewed as a frame or motitl, try which the Portuguen army will regenerate; and the feeling it, 11/11'eXCiltql among the Poritigneso troops fin general, cannot fail to lead to the happio ? t results fur thd COl4llllOll emose. We only regret the timeloit:' • Ott the 7th inst.. the fallen - nen at Grail, in Fife shire, observed a bladdorlipproaching the harbour, which they picked up, tqi found that it contained a letter frota the perrint) in charge of the Light-huusts t,i) the !sic 01 May addressed to a Gentleman at infentuing his frieit.ht of the weltare of hi* fa. thily• it is aitigulat 'that the letter Wd* dated the 7th (the day it arrived)', that it carne to the very place for which it Waf4 intended, ono that probably - within a few huitc4 alter it was counnotici to tht: Wa", from it distance of six 'onus znd a, hail. — hid bin nu communication with tire_ Lind I ' ) r 30 :40 inin io tho SWUM' Weiltll4l% Li * 1 " 1i,141-401?;-,` COURT oi' CHANCER lAN. ti. • 4,4 • ' ' • , • "' AETE CASTLE, EX-PARTE' Ti! iO tASi EX-P.1%1'4 RHODES, IN THE MATIPAt or RHODES. • Sir S. Rommti rind Mr. JonNstON; on the per of :the'Peritioiler Castle,: stated, i;iat .he had been employed as Solicitor fir Attodes, in an ,tpiiiictiti to fur setting aside a Gnnmi ! ision rit B ontiatainst him by Evan thomli. lii 010 , trpirl,ca tion Rhodes was success'lnl, after a trial-3111%u, ty which it was found that; at the time of l'flkinq iirrt the Commission, there was no Petitioning Creititor's' debt. His .Lorctship acNrciingty hle to IthodeS in the costs incurred in the proceig'il, lugs, which were taxed bz the M ister it iy‘vrirdsPf Thomas, however, had since taken °tit ano ther Cominission against Rhodes: the cvsih; on of. count of which this soli was ordered to.be paidjuld aetualiy - been advanced by Mr. Castle, and ha,' yer been repaid to hint, in - consetjuence of the Bankruptcy of Rhodel, if miw. to be paid hi hi,. , they must go into the general (dud tut the benefit of his Creditors, The present applieition, t.,ereltme, was urtde to have thi.t soot paid ov, , r to A. Cab. tie, who, as Solicitor for Rhodes, the Learned Conn. set •contended, was entiticd to a lien .upuit it, as haring; been ordered to' be paid on acc u ont of Mr. rtiCHARDS and Mr. AGAR, fo Mr. Thl:1)1!', stated, that the former ColliMiSSion h aci been volier.; seded, because at the time of taking it out 'the whole of the Petitioning Creditots' debt, wnien, by trod betvveen the parties, ‘vas payable at certain tervali, At the titneH.o his Lor4l,ll:p's making the order, ip.wevor, a d!.or upwaris i.vaA doe to Mr. Thomas by Mr. Ithodes, and the snit tirdered hy his Lordsbi o paid to Rhodes, only her:011;4 re,i., 1 1 ted.d.,.tiod or dionnuti,in, /no tiinto, of thi, d , Mr. Thomas therekire, by his Petition, prayed, th.,t C role might be restrained trom proceeding no this ord,r. The Lottri• Cn.lNottiott that a Solleitoi had a lien as ag in,t his Cli'etu, fOr costs. What be ' doubted was,, f'l.'huinas colk;i1 here be ci.r.npaeo to pay, lie having a la: ,et debt dile to him. +iai LAI - bhip wished to know when the aci of bankruptcy Lid ' been committed. Sir .S,lty Romti.r.v saiJ, it wls dened 'tin his aide that theie was any act of b,nkrup'cy. This ual the question ariiiag thethe' 11,1,4 peznion, ny: which the bankrupt sought to have the eonniU•siwi auper , eded. The Ijounds of thli' :Iv/flit-m . lon were two-fold. • First, dun there was. 'a ready in existence, to which the Petit , uner had•sur. rendei - od in 1790., and itr which he had never tib. tained a certificate. Any funds therefore that. h might now be posses4i.Ji Olt, belonged the assi4- nees under that commi , sion, 13ut, secondly, he,' denied that since the debt ot the petitioning 'creditor exited, he connit:tted any ad.of bankruptcy...—. The circumstances held by the cotwniisiocem as amounting to an net of bankrtiptey in this ease, the learned Counsel submitted, Were not sufficient. It was indeed stated, hat the .I):titinner; when he came into Ins counting-hoti.e, locked the door tor fear of his creditor., but it did not appear that he had theieby retarded them, or that' he . had actually been denied to any one creditor. Mr. RlCilAitps and Mr..Ac k,IT argued that. a corn- mksion, taken our twenty years ago, on which it did not 3pptar that any vr-ceedings had been h e ld, Or that a sinje linhyidnal 01.1 interosTed in it, Co rid avdii.the Bonkrittpt to the elfett ol setting ilitide eominissi9n un4er wh'idl there were 6orta fide re (UtotA, Who had dealt kvith him as t man rnhtled to • carry on mercantile transattions. Stich apira . might • 'avail the assigneeg or Creditors nutter the tovinet , cotritnision, but could nut• be listeoed Iron the BankrOpt. As, to the att of bAkruptoy k they submitted that the fit is stated on the face u the proevelings were stattic{tnt On that head. The Loup. CliANC4L4..Q4.said, it W3S only under certain circurnoanoes that, a seconti commission could . be suppOrtodi w,lrile a prior one was in exist era:c. There was aornethitig rather unfortunate, trio, in thc.! citemnAances. apperiring on the pvcceed hip from which an a 6.1 of bankruptcy was sougla to be interred; one of those eircurnstancei being, th at instead of denying himself to hit creditors, he had attended a meeting of them:- A person haying rt prior conitutiSinu hanging over hi;11, had 10; han f li completely tied, and eoul.l do iut Og, f c 4hotikt, Look into the proqediugs, and it the Counsel citt eigter side had any autholities to addlue, or ally thing farthrr to urge, lie.a . liguldhcar them on TEM day morning. -r..._...r~ Lord GIiE,NVILLtt has liro'yetc,l great improc ments tut liis tine estate Of iloennut)c, in Corn wall.-- The exten4ive docvns, so long neglected,.thoiioi thy ) , contain vast ,tracts of the rictwst soil, are iloW rub:crated, anti some parts of then) bock 0 cc ith, coati, others to itli acorns. Viscount.FALtitotis'n Intends ts_build new 'nau tili-in, upon his twootifid 'estate Ani4C g ol twin, (011, cyan. Ilia Lordship's itektiowl -dged taite will )totint less discover a better site than the pre,eiii 110,-te stan,:s on, and the.lioe of it ttioreleiii,titcl_ ro'id that which now carries yott frOtn' .Nl!)ps-tttiry to TVegotitnan. 'flitarsclay the 3 ili inst arrlinp.ie-r cvas at 0.0 well, in the 1 sio, 0: 'Ely,' 6y Wta.rt.lNl IN 4 - 1 - 1 , (lout. one 'of the etithilers of '.;iii 1 , 10. tc view of,II:e Mirk Cknye, c.vho cc clnicc stctl te preceding:evening in ceased was the Satrlctik(W:ol w.lO 30111 i: iiine since dc aired intnlelt to Ott ttio,t4l9tAttra of Dr. of Long Sutton, , in 4i . twoltiQjtc9. It will lei:tied, that this Niart.--,Griye made a conieS'sion of Inc circumstance to'orte of ti ePolice Officers, wi,ete near London (on It =s reloro from Herflord Asizes), in consegnenee of, whici) he c.vas app ( te. . h e hded, and, with a man yarned Wookirafll 4 illt.4. tit the OM Bailey for the sitine3 ; tout in cotisevence ,sorne derangement which J.)pp,c;cred in tiCe - :soon. dtv . .l of Guye, - tky were acquittri.d.-11 is sirigilitir that he aiway4 persisted to alit; story, dared just beiore he tett tite hhos t . and not many ‘ mintites ly.:fore ..141 inet, trident that terminated his lite, that v,113 the murderer,—Vcrdi4--eicciiienta 44,2 th. 4's. hale bus , wasoico, top Cl).c poisoned laat we,e4, in Bedminster, by takii;g butter of antimony, Which was served o , it t'. , l,hn thiunith mistake, Itoril a drtcgi!: , t's shop, anticnor,i',al wino,